Isaiah:37:1-13

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* And it came to pass , when king Ezekias heard it , that he rent his clothes , and put on sackcloth , and went up to the house of the Lord . * And he sent Heliakim the steward , and Somnas the scribe , and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth , to Esaias the son of Amos , the prophet . And they said to him , Thus says Ezekias , * To-day is a day of affliction , and reproach , and rebuke , and anger : for the pangs are come upon the travailing woman , but she has not strength to bring forth . * May the Lord thy God hear the words of Rabsaces , which the king of the Assyrians has sent , to reproach the living God , even to reproach with the words which the Lord thy God has heard : therefore thou shalt pray to thy Lord for these that are left . * So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias . * And Esaias said to them , Thus shall ye say to your master , Thus saith the Lord , Be not thou afraid at the words which thou hast heard , wherewith the ambassadors of the king of the Assyrians have reproached me , * Behold , I will send a blast upon him , and he shall hear a report , and return to his own country , and he shall fall by the sword in his own land . * So Rabsaces returned , and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna : for he had heard that he had departed from Lachis . * And Tharaca king of the Ethiopians went forth to (note :)Gr . besiege (:note ) attack him . And when he heard it , he turned aside , and sent messengers to Ezekias , saying , * Thus shall ye say to Ezekias king of Judea , Let not thy God , in whom thou trustest , deceive thee , saying , Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians . * Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done , how they have destroyed the whole earth ? and shalt thou be delivered ? * Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them , both Gozan , and Charrhan , and Rapheth , which are in the land of Theemath ? * Where are the kings of Emath ? and where is the king of Arphath ? and where is the king of the city of Eppharuaim , and of Anagugana ?

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